Key Points
Prime Minister Narendra Modis concept of Kashi Tamil Sangamam is an innovative programme and has a huge political as well as cultural potential..
The BJP has successfully overcome its earlier image as a North Indian party, but Tamil Nadu has always eluded it..
One of the central goals of Kashi Tamil Sangamam is to take on and decimate Dravidianism by countering it with an excessive demonstration of a broader Tamil culturalism...
In his 23-year-old political career, Modi as Gujarats chief minister and then the prime minister focused on Tamil epics and literature in many of his public addresses, even including international fora..
The Central Institute of Classical Tamil carried out this extensive work in these translations with the support of the Union government and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath.Modi flagged off the Kanyakumari-Varanasi Tamil Sangamam train by saying this furthered the spirit of ek Bharat, shreshtha Bharat..
